Re: Another problem on another machine

James Velguth <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:52:33 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.luni.tech
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On 6/11/2011 7:30 AM, Carl Karsten wrote:
> Take a picture of the screen, post it to
> http://imagebin.org/?page=add
>
> and hopfully you hae a 2nd box you can download/burn a live cd
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Robert Smith
> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>> --- On Sat, 6/11/11, James Velguth<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>
>> From: James Velguth<[email protected]>
>> Subject: [LUNI] Another problem on another machine
>> To: "Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion"<[email protected]>
>> Date: Saturday, June 11, 2011, 1:16 AM
>>
>> My operating system has quit working.  I was running Ubuntu 9.10 and
>> left it running while I went out.  When I returned it didn't work.  When
>> I boot I get messages that it can't find /dev, /sys, /proc on root and
>> /sbin/init not found. It also says try parsing init=bootarg but I have
>> not idea how to do this.  I know this is rather vague description but I
>> am hoping someone has seen this and know what to do.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance to anybody who can give me an idea how to get
>> this working again.
>>
>> Jim
>> --
>>
>> Have you tried booting up on a Live CD and mounting your drive to have a look see? That would be my first step.
>>
>> Rob
>>
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> How can I take a picture of the screen when it won't boot up.
>
> Actually let me be more correct.  I have 2 external hard drives both
> running Ubuntu.  The first one died 2 months ago so I loaded the
> second.  The second one had the Firefox that fades out.  When using #2 I
>   can plug in #1 and #2 will recognize its there but tells me. wrong fs
> type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd1. 
>
> When I try to boot #1 I get all the can't find on root message mentioned before but I can type help for available commands and I can change directories.  It looks like its all there but I don't know how to adjust it to make it work.  I'd rather use #1.
Thanks again
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